Elk Grove doesn't run much heavy manufacturing today, and there's no packaging equipment buyer sitting inside the city to point to. What's here is the tail end of an agricultural story: a Gold Rush-era crossroads on the Monterey Trail that grew into cattle and sheep ranching, then into wine grapes, with at least 35 growers planted near the town by the 1880s. That wine industry wound down by the mid-20th century, and Elk Grove stayed a small farming town until a 1957 highway expansion turned it into the fast-growing Sacramento suburb it is now, with population climbing from 10,959 in 1980 to today's 166,913.

The nuts, fruit, and grain that built the surrounding valley never disappeared; they just moved to larger operations elsewhere in the region. You're running nut and dried-fruit lines somewhere in that valley; we supply the EliteFill auger fillers, EliteWeigh multihead weighers, and automatic case erectors that keep them portioned and packed, and Elk Grove sits inside that same agricultural supply chain. No PLAN IT location sits in Elk Grove, though our equipment reaches food and beverage producers across the Sacramento region: the California location page and food and beverage industry page cover that reach, and the case study on scaling food production shows how a similar Central Valley operation made that same jump. The VFFS machine category and automatic case packer lineup detail the machines themselves, and the full solutions page pulls the rest together.